Green Bay Packers improved from 9-8 in 2023 to 11-6 in 2024, but Matt Lafleur’s team still took third place in NFC North and eventually lost all six games from Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions-W This 22 22-10 defeated with eagles in the Wild NFC card round.
Last year, Packers attacked after the season, wiped the floor from Dallas Cowboys to open Play -ffs and almost upset San Francisco 49ers in the division round. In 2024, Packers improved in many areas statistically, but eventually lost three straightforward games during a very disappointing finish.
Here’s what went well, what went wrong, and what does it mean for Packers going forward:
What went well
– Packers produced 31 take -out, good in the fourth place in NFL and from 18 in 2023. Signing Xavier McKinney (who produced nine to take out) and developing Edgerrin Cooper (who created four others), was a huge escalate in the defense of Jeff Haffa in 1 The year Matt Lafleur wanted to take more take -out in 2024 and got them in a great way. Packers took second place in NFL at take -out points.
– Josh Jacobs was a escape star. Packers moved from Aaron Jones and actually improved. Jacobs was one of the league leaders in forced unexpected attacks, yards after contact with the first, total residence and total application. Even with a time of stuffy blocking of the offensive line for the Jacobs race he was still feasting. It was especially good in transforming the exploit of the 10 yards.
– Packers took a gigantic step forward in the first season of Hafley. Green Bay has improved from 10 to 6 points per match, from 20 to 5 on yards per game, from 27 to 7. In DVOA, from 24 to 4 in EPA per game, from 17 to 5 on yards, from 23 to 4 on Makes and from 22 to 3 on the jard to transfer allowed.
– Tucker Kraft appeared as a legitimate weapon at a tight end. He entered the initial role to open the 2024 season and proved his power at every step, catching 50 passes at 707 yards and seven results. He was wonderful as a blocker and a monster after catching. Lafleur said he thought Kraft could be an elite tight end and regretted that he did not get the ball in 2024.
– Packers were sometimes explosive in the attack. In general, Green Bay took fourth place in the NFL in explosives, fourth in 12 or more yards series, fourth at the end of 20 or more yards and the second at the end of 50 or more meters.
– Edgerrin Cooper looks like a future star. Świeżak played in 14 matches and was on the pitch for less than 500 snaps, but he still ended up 13 attacks on the loss-on-linbackers outside the ball in NFL-i 3.5 bags. The game quickly, has destructive instincts against the run and consistently performed the changing game. If he manages to velvety some of the consistency issues, Cooper can be a star after the 2025 season.
– Packers solved gigantic problems in the spare quarterback and Kicker. Malik Willis won two matches as a starter, he helped Packers come back and win the third match after the start of the match for Jordan Love and almost defeated Bears at the end of the finals of the season. He will enter 2025 as a solid secondary option for love. At Kicker, Brayden Narveson experiment only six games, but the signing of Veteran Brandon Mcmanus stabilized this position. He did everything except one season, including all 30 additional points and all three goals on 50 yards. He expected in 2025.
– Packers swept AFC South and NFC West, including victory over Rams and Texans.
– Three different players reached an average of over 10.0 yards for target – Jayden Reed, Christian Watson and Tucker Kraft.
– In total, Packers broke a lot of attacks. Josh Jacobs and Tucker Kraft were particularly challenging to solve. The crime often prosperated from Jacobs’s courtyards after contact and Kraft Shipyard after catching.
– After replacing Preston Smith Packers, they got 4.0 bags in seven matches from Brenton Cox Jr., a rising teenage edge throw, which can have a chance to become the main player at the front in 2025.
-Karl Brooks blocked the goal in the field when the time passed to keep victory over Bears to Soldier Field, and Brandon McManus reached two winning goals.
-Packers had 7-1 when scoring 30 or more points and 9-0, when they allow less than 20 points.
What went wrong
-Packers increased to 11-4 with 34-0 over Saints, but then lost three straightforward matches to finish the season. The Lafleur team abandoned the chance to defeat the Vikings, threw their series of victories over bears and lost 12 points to Eagles in a full wrong defeat after the season.
– Packers lost all six matches with Eagles, Vikings and Lions – three teams that have won at least 14 matches of the regular season. Green Bay was a good team, but consistently failed against the great teams of the league in 2024.
– Jordan Love playmaker suffered three different injuries, including tears of ligaments in the knee in 1 week, groin injury in week 8 and an elbow injury in week 18. His mobility was confined and left the valuable training time in the first half of the season. The game through an injury is part of the playmaker at a high level, but the Love 2024 season was so clearly sabotaged by a consistently penniless injury.
– Love ended only 17 “great throws”, a significant decline from its 37 in 2023.
– The defensive front fought for consistent pressure on the playmaker. Packers ended with 45 bags, estimated, but 20 bags appeared in three matches, and Packers took 20th place in terms of pressure speed, as well as average time to quit opponents of the quarterback. All great defense must be able to press the four in front, and Packers could not in most huge places in 2024.
– The corner Jaire Alexander only played in seven matches. He wounded his knee at the end of the week 8 weeks, and the injury devastated the rest of the season. He played only 10, which slammed the rest of the road. Without their upper corner, the Packers had to consistently duplicate secondary and no difference in the corner. Alexander’s future in Green Bay now has sedate doubts.
-Self-Sabotage was a common topic in huge games. So many winning gigantic games simply does not do things to lose these games, and Packers could not get out of their own ways too often. Penalties, drops, own mistakes. Packers beats over and over again in 2024. Maybe this is another step for a teenage team learning how to win – learning how not to lose.
– Packers dropped too many passes. Through almost every Packers statistics, they were among the league leaders in drops. According to PFF, Jayden Reed and Dontayvion Wicks joined for 18 drops, the most among teammates. Reed finished with 10 drops, the third of all players, while Wicks led all players as a percentage of inheritance. Jordan Love had the third highest percentage of inheritance among all playmakers.
– Packers were highly conservative in fourth place, trying only 16 conversions of the fourth. In the era in which good teams are becoming more and more aggressive on the fourth down and gain more and more value by winning the situation of a high lever, Packers went in the opposite direction in 2024.
– Special teams have improved in several areas, including in relation to the start and punting, and Brandon McManus helped solve kicker problems. But Packers still took 32 place in the general class of special teams in PFF, which suggests that the third phase is still a problem three years in the Rich Bisaccia era. Green Bay missed 30 opponents, had 21 penalties and made several critical mistakes in the delayed season in special teams.
– recipient Christian Watson suffered a significant knee injury in the finals of the season and will probably miss most of the 2025 season. Watson, who caught 29 passes, but on average over 21 yards for fishing in 2024, the year of the contract will remain in 2025.
What all this means
Ultimately, it can be easily argued that Packers took a significant step forward as a football team, but also missed a great opportunity to take advantage of success in the delayed season in 2023. While the Packers made great outdoor accessories and improved in several areas, Jordan Love coped with injuries during the rocky second season as a starter, teenage recipients in stagnation, the defensive front was disappointed, the corner No. 1 of the team left the majority of the season, and special teams were inconsistent and made great mistakes at the end of the year. Most of the year did not go to plan, but Packers still won 11 matches in the season and performed the season after the season. From that moment, however, success cannot be measured after the performance after the season. Brian Gutekunst believes that this team is ready to compete for the championships. It starts with greater coherence in the regular season, winning huge matches in November and December, providing the title of NFC North and noise after the season. The next season out of season similar to the last one – when Gutekunst added a few starting strikes through a free agency and requires immediate playmakers from the draft class – is required. This team is close. But how close? Despite the disappointing ending by 2024, the expectations for 2025 should still be high.
